Core and Builtins
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+ - Issue #23985: Fix a possible buffer overrun when deleting a slice from
+ the front of a bytearray and then appending some other bytes data.
+
- Issue #24102: Fixed exception type checking in standard error handlers.
+- Issue #15027: The UTF-32 encoder is now 3x to 7x faster.
+
+- Issue #23290: Optimize set_merge() for cases where the target is empty.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka.)
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+- Issue #20274: When calling a _sqlite.Connection, it now complains if passed
+ any keyword arguments. Previously it silently ignored them.
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- Issue #20274: Remove ignored and erroneous "kwargs" parameters from three
METH_VARARGS methods on _sqlite.Connection.